Modern morals

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I hate killing snails, but I don’t like them eating my shrubs either. A friend suggests that I throw them over my garden fence into the car park of my local supermarket, where the snails might thrive on the strip of ground, considerately planted by the company with screening trees, alongside the fence. But is it unethical to resolve my dilemma in this way?

There is a story of a man who, finding a snail in his garden, picks it up and hurls it into the distance. Two years later the man hears a knock at his door and opens